custom rofi menu with tab-separated text file, cut and awk

cmds.txt

ls_home>show home>  ls ~                                                                                
ranger> >   ranger    
config_nvim>Configure NVim> vim -c "cd ~/.config/nvim" ~/.config/nvim/init.vim    
    
    
# vim: set list listchars:tab=>- noexpandtab tabstop=15    
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menu.sh

#!/bin/bash    
# Show menu    
if [[ -z "$@" ]]; then    
     cut -f 1,2 -s --output-delimiter=% cmds.txt | column -s% -t    
else
    # Use selection - work in progress, might need different menus or a third column that 
    # decides on prefixes (x-terminal-emulator, etc)
    SELECTED="${1%% *}"    
    CMD=$(awk -F'\t' "\$1 == \"$SELECTED\" { print \$3 }" cmds.txt)    
    # Open a new Terminal
    if [[ ! -z "$CMD" ]]; then coproc (x-terminal-emulator -e "sh -c '$CMD'" ); fi                      
    exit 0    
fi    
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